Footwear



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Patented Apr. 29, 1930 PATENT OFFICE JABOSLAV BENDA, F PRAGUE, CZECHOSLOVAKIA Foorwnan Original application led October 11, 1924, Serial No. 743,140, and in Czechoslovakia October 9, 1923.

Divided and this application led May ll, 1926. Serial N o. 108,402.

This invention is a division from application Serial No. 743,140 filed October 11, 1924.

. this after-treatment which, particularly the waxing and burnishing must be executed by skillful hands in order to prevent the upper from being damaged in the process.

The object of the present invention is to obviate this labour, and the invention consists in the provision of a Welt of patent leather. y

Since the ordinary patent leather is too soft and porous 'to form by itself a substantial welt, the latter is according to the in` vention made up oftwo strips, a main strip of canvas or ordinary leather and a facing strip of patent leather. The main strip is stitched to the sole, while the facing strip is cemented down by means ,of an acid, water is stitched to the upper with the lesh'side outermost. This obviates the usual roughing of the grain side of the upper to receive the Welt. The welt is cemented by means of a Celluloid solution to the sole and finished off flush with the latter.

I claim:

1. A welted footwear wherein the welt is composed of a body strip and a facing strip made of different materials, the body strip I and sweat proof cement, for instance a celluloid solution.

Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings represents a sectional view of a McKay boot to which the invention is applied,

Fig. 2, a plan of the solewith attached welt,

Fig. 3, a sectional view of a boot having a compound welt, and

Fig. 4, a side view of the unfinished boot.

In the McKay boot shown in Fig. 1, a welt 3 of patent leather is cemented to the sole 1 around the upper 2 by means of an acid, water and sweat proof cement, for instance a solution of Celluloid or other cellulose derivative. The lacquered surface 4 of the welt obviates after-treatment of the latter and saves labour andmachinery. The welt is preferably applied to the sole 1 as'shown in Fig. 2 when the sole is prepared.

Figs. 3 and 4 show a welt 3 composed of two stri s `5 and 6 the lower one of which is ma e of canvas or ordinary leather and connected by double stitches 7 t'o the sole 1. The upper strip is made of patent leather and is subsequently cemented down by means of a celluloid cement so as to cover the surface 8 and the stitches 7.

In the case of pasted footwear, the welt 

